"So...Is he leaving or not?"
"I hope he does"
All of this seems to be footsteps of what Zoe and his merry band of followers are going to do sometime soon. They're apparently talking to some people to start a "people who survived online hatemob harrasment group" (from her Twitter, not making this up). They're possibly going to push their agenda this way since they couldn't piss gamers off to spew vitriol with their "GAMERS...
"There are two(+) totally different things going on right now."
Yes. Gamergate supporters of all kind, regardless of gender, sexual orientation and color, are claiming allegiance to games they love while trying to push out godawful and one sided agendas from both games and journalism and try to have civil discussion with both each other and people with differing opinions.
SJWs are blaming Gamergate supporters for being misogynist. Gamergate supporte...
"She says exactly what she says."
You don't have to read too much into it to understand what she implies. It's not that hard to extrapolate.
"I've never received such things."
Play a competitive game with a big fanbase devotedly or basically share an unpopular opinion on Twitter with a popular hashtag and you will. In a world where even 10 year old kids are getting doxxed and threatened (by social justice warri...
"And where in that does she call anyone a misogynist?"
She doesn't directly call anyone. She just implies that people who're supporting games that has that trope have/will turn into one, sooner or later.
"you don't think that kids will learn to emulate in some fashion what they hear in movies, tv shows, and video games?"
None of the games that have low age ratings have people yelling "bitch" or "...
And you should go yell about how "women in videogames are being represented wrong!" in the middle of the busiest town of Iran in arabic.
I mean why not?
"people assume she means that the people who play them are misogynists?"
She says playing these games will turn gamers into sexists eventually because of the effect it has on the players. And not only in her video. In one of her recent tweets, she said "game developers should be aware of what games teach to players when it comes to dealing with conflicts", basically confirming that we shouldn't play "violent games". But it's good to know ...
The only ones who are misogynistic, racist and sexist overall are SJWs who are trying to shove this shit down our throats and trying to back us down by attacking us with laughable ad hominem filled "arguments".
Recently, in addition to Gamergate, a new hashtag on Twitter started; notyourshield. It's used by people who are blacks, asians, homosexuals, transsexuals, etc and who are also avid gamers and are against this corruption crap and gaming media and SJWs usi...
"Can we move on with the real gaming news that actually matter?"
Some people think that corruption and nepotism running deep through the game journalism is something worthwhile to report about. They are calling out people like you and me sexist, racist bigots and trying to push their SJW agenda into games, which so far affected some developers like the artist who drew concept art and design of Divinity: Original Sin.
This is one of those pieces that...
"Hopefully people will learn a thing or two from this."
I don't think we'll be able to convert any of the SJWs at this point. I recently went Escapist to check Jim Sterling's new video and see what he was thinking of all this, only to get mad at the whole comments section.
People are still trying to push that this whole thing exploded because we are mad that Zoe had sex with five guys and not because she used that to invoke favoritism to...
This isn't exclusive to game developers FYI. They're frothing their mouths about the amount of people who signed it, but there are people, people who belong to press companies that directly attacked the gamers in the past two weeks (like Badass Digest), who also signed it. And no big name developer has signed it so far. It's all people with no credibility like a few guys from Bioware subsidiaries and Cliffy B.
But it won't stop them from pushing it as if all o...
"which is why I tend not to even use the word "gamer""
Does this change the fact that these SJWs have been trying to destroy an identity many have adopted for the past 20 years? No. It also doesn't change the fact that they've been using the word "nerd" as an insult in the past two weeks.
And what these idiots are doing is basically shooting themselves in the foot. They didn't do any sort of research on the matter. Th...
"you would think with all the complaining they do about lack of women in the gaming industry that they would jump all over this."
All of this proves, yet again, that sites like Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun and Polygon were just in with the SJW fad just because they needed to produce clickbait articles and not because they actually gave a damn about the issues. And the rest of the websites are just scared to be assosciated with the scandal in anyway because of the poss...
"What I believe she was trying to do was trying to accelerate her connections with the gaming industry to give her game some publicity"
"What I believe she was trying to do was trying to accelerate her connections with the gaming industry to give her game some publicit"
If she's trying to give her game some publicity, she wouldn't have destroyed a charity event that's sole purpose was to get more women into game development, even if the...
Great article as always from DK but you forgot to mention Patricia Hernandez's sexual involvement with two game developers during the time she wrote positive articles about their games with "click here to purchase" links embedded in all of them. Which puts further strain on Kotaku.
Also here's a post that confirms that all these efforts have been paying off (assuming it's true) and also explains the reason why all these disrespectful idiots released simi...
" The ideas behind second wave feminism aren't that hard to understand if you take a second to understand that they actually might have a point."
Eventhough they don't? Look, I understand that this might be hard for someone who uses "straight white male privilege" as an excuse to run away from facts, but none of their laughable excuses for scantily clad women in most games, have a point.
Sarkeesian states in her most recent video t...
The word; SJW, was made up to be used as pejorative. People who use it aren't insulting people who want social justice. It's used to describe people who bother and attack other people on the internet that doesn't agree with their way of thinking (like the Tumblr feminists).
http://www.urbandictionary....
Well, they're using Vivian James as a mascot because it's the only thing that's perfectly relevant with what's going on at the moment. It's just to put a more recognizable face on the movement.
Also, according to the Facebook page they linked in the article; these SJW idiots are preparing to make an announcement at PAX on monday morning, where they'll all take the stage, standing hand to hand and urge people to not use the word "gamer" and re...
But don't you know that wanting to escape from the mundaneness of life by playing games that have women with caricaturistic features, is SEXIST? How dare you want to play as a ridiculous looking woman who beats up equally ridiculous looking men? Don't you know that it treats women like sex objects and objectifies them in a wrong way, eventhough the men are objectified even more by being mere obstacles and things to throw around?!
/sarcasm
The day this...
Eurythmics
Jefferson Airplane
Duran Duran
Pink Floyd
Queen
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
David Bowie
Barry White
The Animals
Take these and shove a number of random tracks from each into the game and I'll repurchase it again. I'm so goddamn sick of turning the radio on and hearing Rihanna go "EURGGGHH EURGHHHHHHH" at this point.
"Both sides are incredibly inclusive!"
Haven't experienced this in any shape or form so far. I asked a few of the anti-gamergate folk for a civil discussion or just basically replied them to tell them about our side... And all I got was "f*ck off!", "omg why do u think I care bout ur opinion?", "say hello to the wasteland of banned! blocked!".
When one side is filled with people who actually want to debate this with...